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14-letter words containing c, o, v

  • conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
  • conversion van — a van for utility use that has been customized with a luxury interior
  • converted rice — white rice prepared from brown rice that has been pressure-steamed to enable the nutrients within the bran to be absorbed by the starchy endosperm before the rice is dried and milled.
  • convertibility — The quality of being convertible.
  • convexo-convex — (esp of a lens) having both sides convex; biconvex
  • convincibility — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
  • convincingness — The state or quality of being convincing.
  • convocationist — a person who supports either of the synods of the provinces of Canterbury or York
  • convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
  • convulsiveness — The state or quality of being convulsive.
  • coquilhatville — former name of Mbandaka.
  • cost of living — The cost of living is the average amount of money that people in a particular place need in order to be able to afford basic food, housing, and clothing.
  • cost-effective — Something that is cost-effective saves or makes a lot of money in comparison with the costs involved.
  • costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
  • cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
  • covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
  • covered market — an indoor market
  • covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
  • coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
  • cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
  • cryoprotective — protecting against damage caused by cryopreservation
  • cryptovolcanic — of or relating to a rock structure providing indirect or incomplete evidence of volcanism.
  • crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
  • cytoprotective — (biology) That provides cytoprotection.
  • czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
  • decivilization — those people or nations that have reached such a state.
  • decollectivize — to organize (a people, industry, economy, etc.) according to the principles of collectivism.
  • deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
  • decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  • device control — (character)   One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
  • disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
  • do violence to — to inflict harm upon; damage or violate
  • driving school — vehicle operation lessons
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • electoral vote — the number of electors that each state or federal district is allowed to have
  • electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
  • electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
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